Eric Berry

The College Football Playoff picture was set Saturday and the matchups are No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 4 Washington in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl and No. 2 Clemson vs. No. 3 Ohio State in the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl. Those games are New Year's Eve, and the winners meet for the national championship Jan. 9 in Tampa, Fla. No. 5 Penn State and No. 6 Michigan wound up outside the top four. That's how it should be, most would say. Others could make a case that the Nittany Lions or Wolverines belonged. The CFP system isn't perfect but it beats the old BCS model. It's a heck of a lot better to debate inclusion in a four-team playoff than who belongs in a championship game. … The rest of the...

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